Cream Wallpaper

Cream is the ground colour of the range, so this is a wide collection: 130 designs where the wall stays warm and pale. Trout in rows, swallows in a washed sky, sepia citrus, a surreal still life on stone plinths, Morris fruit on oatmeal, dogwood on parchment.

Choosing cream wallpaper

Where it works

Cream is the safe ground for a room that cannot afford to lose light, and it is kinder than white against old woodwork and warm floors. Orange Grove and Golden Pomegranate are the quietest, line-drawn and mostly ground, for a bathroom or a landing. Woodland Songbird on parchment and Speckled Trout on warm cream suit a nursery, a study or a downstairs loo, where the small drawn details get looked at. Sky Swallows is the one to use where you want the wall to open outward, since its clouds build real depth.

Picking between the designs

Because the ground is the same, choose by what sits on it. Fruit: Citrus Bough, Golden Pomegranate, the Morris Fruit Light with lemons and pomegranates on flecked oatmeal. Birds: Woodland Songbird, Sky Swallows, Raspberry Thicket. Trees: Sketched Pines, each conifer a different species, standing in loose rows. Flowers: Trailing Fuchsia and Garnet Fuchsia hanging crimson bells on ivory. And the odd ones: Curiouso Still Life, engraved pears, aubergines and a French horn balanced on stone plinths, the strangest thing in the range, and Navy Deco, where cream is the arch rather than the ground. If the room needs colour as well as light, Creamy Dogwood and the Cabana Calla mural put cream blossoms and stripes onto blue.

Related

Cooler pale grounds are in white wallpaper and neutral wallpaper; the cream-ground fruit designs in fruit wallpaper. To see how a pale pattern behaves against colour, read Paint vs wallpaper.